Today is February 28, which expresses 2 / 28 in Chinese. This is the name given to the uprising of Taiwanese who opposed the government of Chiang Kai-Shek and were killed from 28 February 1947 (I told you that when Chiang Kai-shek was not a saint!). They were protesting against repression and corruption of leaders. It must be said that those who had followed CKS Taiwan after their defeat in mainland China were not tenders vis-à-vis the population already installed on the island.
On 27 February, the beating of a seller of cigarettes ignites the powder. The next day, protesters demanding the arrest of the responsible officer. Security forces fired on the crowd. The violence escalates, it will be so-called "white terror" (white is the color of death in the culture Chinese). Police arrested and executed teachers, students, doctors, lawyers, intellectuals suspected of carrying out the insurgency. It remains unclear exactly how many people were killed, estimates range between 10,000 and 30,000 people over a period of 10 years. Some remained in prison until the 80.
The white terror then became taboo, and not until 1996 that the government recognized its responsibility. He then built this memorial in a park in Taipei, renamed the Peace Park, and is now Feb. 28 holiday.
In this park, there is also a lily, a hamayuu precisely, its Japanese name (Crinum asiaticum in Latin). In August 1945, when the atomic bomb had destroyed all the vegetation in and around Hiroshima, we discovered a hamayuu who alone had resisted. Carefully maintained by a survivor, it blooms again next summer. The hamayuu has become a symbol of peace. It was planted in 2005.
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